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I emailed it to them earlier. They just want to call him on the actual day and tell him to come when they get to the part of the job he is to see, but as he is busy for half of that day would he want to hang around waiting for them to call after his meeting, especially if something else comes...

He did a report on what needs doing and he included the exact bars to use in the report and he drew a diagram of how the bars are to be inserted

I have builders coming early next month to repair a wall damaged by subsidence and the man from the insurance company said to me last year to ask the structural engineer to come while they are here to confirm that they are putting the right sort of bars in the wall. I am having problems...

I will ask when I send them the latest quote this coming week. It may work out cheaper in the long term to pay for the repair work myself.

I have only claimed for the drain repair up till now, not for the subsidence. This hasn't affected my premium

My house has some subsidence and the insurance company sent out a firm to fix the leaking drains just over a year ago which had caused the damage. Since then I have tried and failed to find a building firm to do the building repairs. (one company cancelled twice at the very last minute and...

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Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately I have no family and none of my friends has had this sort of work done.

It was arranged for a local builder to come here on a certain day earlier this month to carry out some structural work for me, then they emailed the evening before to say that they were on another job in another area which was taking longer than they had anticipated and could they come this...

I phoned the structural engineer and he said that the minor crack should be repaired in the same way as the long one. I emailed the builders and said this and also asked what they would be doing about the crack next to the window. The secretary is passing on the detail to the builders.

I was told that three months would be long enough. (The drains were repaired in March.) The structural engineer who came last summer put a diagram in his report about how the work was to be done and which bars were to be used. However, the diagram only showed the large crack. He did mention...

My drains were leaking and have caused subsidence. The drains were repaired back in Spring. I have a building firm coming next month to put in bars to knit the cracked brickwork between the bathroom window and kitchen window together (it is a long,narrow crack) and to put in a new kitchen...

The insurance company did call out some years ago when my neighbour first mentioned the cracks to me and they said it wasn't subsidence . They said the crack in the back wall looked like the opening of an old repair ( so I think that the old owners covered it up to get a sale) and that the...

The structural engineer came on Wednesday and said that it is subsidence in his opinion and is most likely caused by the drains. He said the problem is minor at present, 3 out of 10 with 10 being the worst. Now I am waiting for his report which he said would come this Tuesday. He said to send a...

The crack does go through to the inside wall. It didn't some years ago but it does now. It is a pencil line crack. Someone gave me a mobile phone and I will see if I can photo the crack.

I meant trading standards

Hi and thank you for your reply. The water has leaked in through the missing window ledge of the bathroom window. He didn't say about building regulation approval or if he is a member of a self certification scheme. I am grateful to you for mentioning this as I will ask him. Am also wondering...

A reliable builder I know (he has done small jobs for me and another friend in the past) came today to examine the crack in the back house wall of my house and said I don't need a structural engineer to come, that it is caused by water and isn't a structural problem and getting a report would...

Seriously?

I have cracks in three walls-two external walls and one internal wall, and in two ceilings in my house and I want to get a structural engineer to do a report. Could someone tell me how long an inspection of the whole house should take and how much I would be likely to be charged? Have been told...